• Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting – The White House wanted to focus the meeting of top tech executives – including Tim Cook of Apple, Eric Schmidt of Google and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo – on HealthCare.gov, but those invited insisted the focus be on NSA surveillance. And […] …

• Apple reportedly buys Kinect tech-creator PrimeSense – PrimeSense made the original image sensor in the Kinect, but Microsoft has since switched to a sensor it developed. Apple is supposedly interested in a much smaller version of the sensor that could be used in mobile devices. • Apple Stores to implement iBeacon location technology to …

If you’ve got an original iPad – the one Steve Jobs introduced back in 2010 – you know that it’s only minimally useful today. That first iPad, cool as it was at the time, can’t be updated past iOS 5 and is agonizingly slow with most apps.

You’d figure it wouldn’t be worth much if you wanted to sell it, right? Well, between now and Saturday, you’d be wrong.

• Microsoft Bashes Apple’s iWork Software, New iPads and Apples and oranges – Microsoft’s top PR guy strikes back at Apple after Tim Cook said the competition seems “confused”. Frank X. Shaw says people use Windows tablets and Office to get real work done. • Microsoft erects a giant Surface tablet in the center of …

• NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally – According to new documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post, the NSA also grabs instant-message buddy lists. And The NSA’s problem? Too much data. • Lavabit reinstates service briefly so users can download emails, change passwords – Did you have a Lavabit account. …

• Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT Through Registrar Melbourne IT – The Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking the DNS settings for the New York Times and Twitter, apparently accessing them through a reseller account of Melbourne IT’s domain registry services. The sites are back up, and you can …

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